Author: John Colville

Cited by

• Ian McEwan (1)
  • IN: The Innocent (1990) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: After dinner we saw an amusing film: Bob Hope in The Princess and the Pirate. Then we sat in the Great Hall and listened to The Mikado played, much too slowly, on the gramophone. The PM said it brought back "the Victorian era, eighty years which will rank in our island history with the Antonine age." Now, however, "the shadows of victory" were upon us.... After this war, continued the PM, we should be weak, we should have no money and no strength and we should lie between the two great powers of the USA and the USSR.
    FROM: The Fringes of Power: Ten Downing Street Diaries, (1985), Book, UK